If I was to tell you there's one thing you're likely to spend 11 years of your life doing, what do you think that would be? Waiting on hold for your telecommunications provider? Standing in queues? Searching for lost things? Trying to remember your passwords? Checking...

After only a year of thinking about it, talking about it and procrastinating wholeheartedly....today I recorded the first audio for my as-yet-unnamed podcast. To be honest I would have procrastinated some more, except that my wonderful mentor encouraged me to write an...

Recently I went on a school ski trip. Now, I'm not a great skier and these were white-out conditions. Beautiful snow, but because of the blizzard we could barely see our knees - let alone the skis under our feet. As a general rule I can cope with not knowing what I'm...

So, the truth is, I'm not always an efficiency queen. Even though my new branding and site (coming soon because thankfully my designer and web guru actually ARE efficiency queens!) would suggest otherwise, anyone who has waited for me to respond to a forgotten text or...

There's a short version and a long version of this post. I know many of us feel like we're swimming in a sea of info overload and I don't want to be adding to that. I often wish someone would give me the executive summary at the start of a blogpost - so if all you...

This morning my nine-year-old son chose to get up at 6am because he wanted to work on his first ever project before school. As I lazed around reading a book and leaving him to it, I was quietly freaking out that he might somehow do something disastrous to my laptop....

Just over a week ago, I had THE MOST AMAZING experience. I went to an unconference. Now if I told you I went to a conference, you may or may not want to hear about it. But if I told you I went to an unconference, nine times out of ten I know what you'll say: "what's...

What on earth IS efficiency coaching?. Some of you have asked me what efficiency coaching actually is. Good question! I work with entrepreneurs and professionals who want to make the best possible use of their time and energy, so they can have more success, more...

You know I'm all about being efficient with our time. That includes what we eat - so any snack recipe which takes hardly any time to make, and creates loads of delicious servings, is a definite winner in my book. This is very easy to throw together. Once cold, you can...

Happy happy new year to you! I hope 2017 has treated you well so far. Thanks for joining me here again. we have so much to talk about. How was your holiday? (I know you've probably been asked a gazillion times by now.) It's great that people care. It can be lovely to...